WWI

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Across
  1. 3. Alliance formed by England, France and Russia
  2. 6. International organization formed after WWI as part of the Treaty of Versailles to promote world peace. The US Senate refused to allow the US to join
  3. 10. A group that travels with something, such as a ship to protect it
  4. 11. The policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war
  5. 12. The right of national groups to own their own territories and have their own forms of government without interference & control by stronger nations
  6. 13. German emperor
  7. 15. Austro-Hungarian Archduke assassinated on July 23, 1914
  8. 16. An agreement to stop fighting
  9. 19. Another word for spying
  10. 21. Hard fought American victory over the Germans in France in 1918
  11. 23. Plan devised by Schlieffen of the Germany Army before the war
  12. 24. A fleet of submarines
  13. 26. A formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
  14. 27. Bonds sold by the United States government to raise money for World War 1
  15. 28. Alliance formed by Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
  16. 30. Princip The man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Down
  1. 1. Defeat of the Germans by French and American troops in France in October 1918
  2. 2. People who refuse to fight in any war because they believe that war is evil
  3. 4. A law requiring people of certain age to serve in the military
  4. 5. The area of trenches nearest to the enemy
  5. 7. Pride in one's nation.
  6. 8. The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
  7. 9. Strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the western front during WW1.
  8. 14. Rhe spreading of ideas that help a cause or hurt an opposing cause
  9. 17. Russian emperors
  10. 18. Most famous WW1 treaty; between Germany and the allied powers in which Germany accepted full responsibility for the war and agreed to pay reparations.
  11. 20. World War 1 alliance led by Austria-Hungary and Germany and later joined by Bulgaria and the Ottoman empire.
  12. 22. A British passenger ship that was sunk by a german U-boat in 1915
  13. 25. Soldiers who fought on foot. Took many casualties from machine gun fire, poison gas and poor and out-of-date tactics, suffered trench warfare.
  14. 29. Plagued soldiers from all sides in the trenches. Carried disease which could spread to soldiers.